Committee 163 Personnel Training Requirements Committee Status Report

摘要

The Personnel Training Requirements Committee charter was developed in 1995 with an objective to formulate a Recommended Practice (RP) concerning laboratory personnel training. The initial committee focus was on calibration technician training requirements and a means to "provide objective evidence" that a person who performed a particular calibration was qualified and competent to do so. In 1996 a DACUM (Developing a Curriculum), coordinated by HEAT (the Higher Education and Advanced Technology Center, Lowry, Colorado) was held in Bolder, Colorado. This project, sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation, was attended by government and industry representatives from throughout the metrology community. With the support of academia, the DACUM was successful in developing a competencies and skills profile for engineers and technicians. The content/output from this project was used as a basis for an NCSLI Guide that is now available. The original charter was fulfilled and left the committee with no further direction. As part of the current strategic planning activities in the NCSLI Education and Training committees, our charter has been updated to provide a bigger umbrella for long-term activities. The new charter and new projects of the committee will be presented in this section.